Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

I want my chirfugging goose back!

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.

Faith is the emperor of dreams.

Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

In the process of being metabolized, sugar robs your body of valuable nutrients ... Sugar also inhibits your liver's production of enzymes needed in the detoxification process.

My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.